Maradona doctor was made ‘scapegoat’ for his death, Argentinian court told

A lawyer for Leopoldo Luque, a doctor charged in the 2020 death of Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona, said in closing arguments that his client was innocent and had been made a “scapegoat”. Lawyer Roberto Rallin rejected the prosecution’s argument that Maradona’s November 2020 death was foreseeable, while another defence lawyer, Francisco Oneto, maintained that his death resulted from an “acute and unpredictable” heart attack. “There was absolutely no possibility of predicting this fatal outcome,” Oneto insisted on Wednesday. Prosecutors have requested a 12-year prison sentence for Luque, a neurosurgeon considered a key decision-maker for Maradona at the time of his death.